This is one of the EXTREMELY RARE cases where journalists actually work both ways. Via Nieman, journalists have universally derided Trump’s Napoleonic effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This, of course, is more predictable than gravity. Journalists NEVER go along with anything ordered by Official Wrong Party.
Locally, journalists also refused to go along when the grotesque devil “city” “government” renamed Canada Island to a weird garble of IPA symbols that I won’t bother to write, though I knew IPA before it was cool and made fonts for IPA before Unicode had fonts for IPA. The garble was apparently intended to honor Firstses Nationses Indigenouses Peopleses because they are impoverished and vulnerable and underrepresented and because they own the casinos and finance the government.
Google map shows the normal name:
The city’s official map, used for plats and planning and such, cautiously avoids the dispute:
When the city renamed it from Canada to the weird garble, the most orthodox local media tried to pronounce the weird garble then quickly returned to Canada Island. Now that Trump has officially sanctioned and blockaded Canada, I’m surprised he hasn’t ordered a new rename.
The island didn’t have a name before 1974. It was just part of the riverfront industrial area filled with railroad tracks and warehouses.
When Spokane hosted the 1974 World’s Fair, all the productive industry was cleared out to make room for pavilions celebrating Nixon’s environmental lunacy. The island held Canada’s pavilion, so it became Canada Island.
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